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Translator : Ekdud

TL Check : KobatoChanDaiSuki

Chapter 20 – Altar (5)

There were two racial skills that the Carnivorous Beast in front of him could use.

It would paralyze the prey with fear and then eat it with devour to quickly regenerate its health.

Kuahhh!

The Fear was basically affected by the individual’s mentality.

But even then it was still a skill.

But at this moment the Magic resistance showed its might.

It was the first time fighting this here it was rather common if you go beyond the tutorial.

If this thing grew more and reached 20m then it can use another Racial Skill,

.

If it even had this, Hansoo probably wouldn’t have came in.

But even this much wasn’t easy to go against though possible.

‘Second location of Primary Nerves between the joints.’

Kududuk

Due to its very thick sh.e.l.l there was a moment of resistance but Hansoo’s strength which had reached the colorless rune stage plus his ability to find weak points and the hardness of the needle made it so that holes started appearing on the black sh.e.l.l.

‘A little bit more’

Since the injury made from the needle was basically the same as a hole where the hairs grew out of.

He needed to hit the pinpoint.

‘It’s done!’

Stabbing it in was important but taking out was also important.

Kuahhhh!

Boooom!

But it’s already been a long time since Hansoo moved away from that location.

The sound of the monster’s breath and the sound of bones cracking entered Hansoo’s ears constantly.

The images of its squirming muscles, the way the tail held balance and the contraction of its thigh muscles came into Hansoo’s head and created a three dimensional image of the monster.

All of this happened in an instant.

It wasn’t a trait, martial ability or a skill.

Since Hansoo could only learn seven skills, the only way for this trait to s.h.i.+ne was to become strong in a different way than others.

And because of that, unlike the strong people who climbed relatively easily, he had to go through many more times worth of battles and struggles in order to climb up slowly.

But this had made him stronger after.

Well most high level adventurers could do this do an extent but Hansoo was unique even out of these people.

Boom

Hans...o...b..rely dodged another attack as he stabbed the needle again.

The needle which had entered its body in an instant, cut off part of the nerve cell cl.u.s.ter on his skin.

It would now have trouble sensing his movements through the vibrations in the air.

From one angle it would seem like that the fight was very one sided but Hansoo’s wasn’t in much of an ease.

In other words, if your magic and physical resistances are equal than being larger would be a huge advantage.

And because of that the high level adventurers basically stacked a lot of magic and physical resistances on their body.

But you couldn’t gain those runes or items in the tutorial area so you needed to dodge every attack.

If he hadn’t raised his strength and stamina, he would’ve gotten thrown off from exhaustion whilst attacking the monster.

Hansoo quickly pulled out a flying cat’s marble as he stabbed the shampoo bottle tied onto his waist.

Squirt

Tudududk

The nerves which had been recovering despite being broken by the needle and melting from the paralysis poison had stopped regenerating at a point.

And to prove that, it’s movements had become rigid and its senses had dulled.

‘As I expected, fighting it inside the altar is the answer’

Since the needle’s area of damage was small, eating one human can heal the damaged nerves for quite a while.

But if this kept going on, he can lay the monster on the ground and put a hole in his heart before his stamina depleted.

As the effect of the cloud snack disappeared, Hansoo quickly bit into the eighth cloud snack and then jumped back in to resume the fight.

“Hansoo! I came to help!”

Hansoo chuckled as he heard the voice that came down from the top of the altar.

Suyeol made a fed up expression after watching Hansoo for a while from above.

A physical difference so large that one hit would’ve turned him into a b.l.o.o.d.y mess.

And he was making the monster into a bee’s hive with that needle.

This thought was very normal because the fight seems like that he didn’t lack strength or stamina at all.

He was so laid back that he was fighting the battle whilst smoking a cigarette one at a time.

‘It won’t be dangerous to help out a little bit down there’

They couldn’t go down because they were scared from the power of the Carnivorous beast but it seemed like its movements had slowed down a lot.

And wasn’t Hansoo in front of them.

So they confirmed in an instant.

As they saw him fight it with such ease, it was very possible that he felt greed for monopolizing it.

He couldn’t even imagine what kind of a reward would come out if you killed that thing.

‘As I thought… We have to kill him today. Greedy b.i.t.c.h’

The carnivorous beast was obvious but killing Hansoo would result in a lot of runes.

No, he was actually jealous of the items that guy had.

It was like being with a tiger whose stomach was full and not a human.

Suyeol felt more pressure from Hansoo than from the Carnivorous beast.

And in that moment the scene from the first night came up in Suyeol’s head.

He suppressed the curses that were coming up his throat and then glanced at the guy next to him.

‘Stupid b.a.s.t.a.r.d. This is why you gotta have good friends’

He had struck up a conversation just in case he could squeeze out information about that guy called Hans...o...b..t the talk went way too smoothly.

Then there is a chance for a third person to take everything whilst these guys fight.

‘If I take care of this guy then everything becomes clean’

If he got rid of this guy and Hansoo then only five of their friends remain.

And then he could crush them with numbers.

‘Haa. That girl’

“It looked like the beast has become slower than Hansoo so let’s go down!”

If the beast had slowed down this much, and if Hansoo fought on the front these guys could probably dodge the attacks somewhat.

Whilst they were running down after Suyeol’s words from the top of the altar on the stairways that connected the top and the bottom, Sangjin made an unexpected action.

As Sangjin shouted before going down, Suyeol was fl.u.s.tered as he cursed inwardly.

‘This r.e.t.a.r.ded b.a.s.t.a.r.d’

As he saw, Hansoo couldn’t spread his awareness to other places due to him and the monster fighting each other with everything they’ve got.

But it was too late to become soft.

‘Yeah. It probably isn’t the time to care about other things’

‘Good. Good.’

Suyeol slowly walked down as he looked downwards.

The beast was occupied fighting Hansoo that it hadn’t been able to pay any attention to them who had already came down to the 10m height.

“How about we wait here awhile? If we go in now we might become a nuisance.”

But at that moment a huge amount of fear exploded from below.

As the fear that blew out from below bounced off the insides of the altar and got amplified, it exploded upwards as it hit everyone’s ears.

“Kuhuk!”

The power of the fear that was amplified from the altar’s structure was much more different.

“Huuuak!”

Since they had put up the number of runes, they weren’t around the level where they would all fall from just a fear.

While one of them was still shaking as if he couldn’t catch his balance yet, something unexpected happened.

Kudududududk

“Uaaaaak!”

It probably wouldn’t have worked but they were all in a state where their balances were off from the unexpected attack.

Bududuk

Their legs didn’t break since they barely caught their balance due to their increased perception and agility but they couldn’t clear up their mentality for a while after falling from a height of 10m.

Krrrrrrrrr

While blocking the entrance to the stairs above.

Suyeol realized something from that expression.

‘f.u.c.k… this b.i.t.c.h. It wasn’t that it didn’t know that we were approaching it’

It wasn’t that the monster didn’t know.

‘Kang Hansoo this b.i.t.c.h. He should’ve told us something like this earlier!’

How could he not tell them about this.

‘f.u.c.k… what made us all fall?’

And then made a dumbfounded expression as he saw Sangjin run up the stairs crazily while covering his ears.

It seems he had been blocking his ears alone.

The guy who was pretty much in normal shape had charged up from the front as he pushed them off.

They had no way of countering it when they were pushed back in terms of stats and had even lost their balance.

‘Is that crazy b.a.s.t.a.r.d trying to run away alone?’

There wasn’t much of a problem because he was going to fight with Hansoo anyway.

Suyeol shouted loudly as he moved around slowly.

And then a voice from above, the top of the stairs where they had come from, was heard.

And then the 10 looked up at the sky in panic.

Hansoo, who was fighting the beast like a maniac just until then, had already climbed up that far.

Suyeol desperatly shouted.

And then Hansoo shook his head.

“I was about to but it failed. Because of you guys. Now his health is going to regenerate.”

The beast’s attack was something that even he was barely dodging.

And if that happened he would devour everyone below, recover his health instantly and cause Hansoo to fall behind on stamina.

The beast goes for the weaker ones first.

No, it would be easier. Since the ground would be littered with runes.

‘Though there was something I didn’t expect’

Whilst Hansoo was watching somebody outside the altar, Suyeol, who had become desperate, shouted out.

“I think it’ll be alright”

“Didn’t you guys come into become sacrifices on your own accord? I will send praises for your samaritanism”

“f.u.c.k…”

They understood the situation finally.

Hansoo had earned 24 hours.

He would be able to defeat a foe a second time whom he had already defeated once.

Suyeol made a expression filled with despair as he looked at the beast slowly approaching him.

Grrrrrrr!

“Aaak!”

And soon the altar was filled with roars, screams and plosives.

“Hoo.”

And he had met with Sangjin who was waiting at the top expressionlessly with the look of stupidity from before nowhere be to seen.

“Why did you do that?”

Then soon after he opened his mouth.

Sangjin mumbled as he listened to the screams of the people whom he had thrown in.

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